The niddy noddy is lovely and a darn sight more comfortable than winding the stuff round your knees.
On the fibre side I bought samples of Shetland humbug (left), camel (right) and Suffolk (not shown). The bundle of loveliness in the middle is 200g of grey alpaca which I've started to spin up for my TDF challenge.
The single is coming out at 25 wpi under tension and I'm going to try to stick to that average.
I didn't think the AVF was going to be a great place for spinning alpaca for the first time (too much danger of dropping the spindle on wet astroturf) so I started on the sample of grey Suffolk. More on that tomorrow.
The AVF itself was great although the fact that I kept glancing up from the morris dancing to see red London buses overhead on the Waterloo bridge was rather surreal.
The morris dancers were great - rather like uruk hai with bells on. The leader of the troupe took the stick clashing very seriously - I thought it was only in jousting that you got points for breaking a lance.
Between the knitting and the spinning I checked out the vegetable sculptures..
.. and the animals from the Vauxhall City farm ..
.. and ate a tiny wee fairy cake from crumb doilies.
I had a very jolly time at the iknit stand putting faces to some Ravelry names and knitting a swatch for the great british sheep. Mine's the brown one.
I think I'm slightly scared by the sheep, but at least there's no room in there for Edward Woodward.
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